More Than You Can Deliver storytelling is easily dismissed as both incredible as well as un-credible. First, you promise to deliver products, solutions, services and programs exceeding your professional capabilities. Then, your promises surpass your organization’s workforce, as well as manufacturing and assembly, competencies. Pursuing those carrots, and lucrative client opportunities, leads you down a… [Continue Reading]
Packing More Than You Can Deliver into Your Sales Story?
Do Professionally Relevant Acronyms tell Your entire Story?
Have you seen a list of professionally relevant acronyms on a business card take up more space than the individual’s name? I know I have. Or, how about during a PowerPoint presentation? Where the first slide includes at least 20 professional acronyms after the presenter’s name. And, the next three slides include the individual’s complete… [Continue Reading]
Is Story part of Your Professional Advancement Roadmap?
When you think about your professional advancement roadmap, storytelling probably is the last component on the list. After all, our perception of professional development reinforces a linear, straight-line from where we are today, to where we will be tomorrow and in the future. Yet, our own experiences getting even from Point A to Point B… [Continue Reading]
Short Storytelling leaves Clients feeling Short Changed
Many of my clients engage in short storytelling, instead of telling the stories stakeholders and clients really want to hear. As a result, their stories lack dimension, details and credibility. In addition, these stories stop short, just when clients want the story to continue. Consequently, clients feel short changed, rather than engaged. Why continue to… [Continue Reading]
Strategic Storytelling Soft Skills are Powerful Skills
Developing strategic storytelling soft skills is a powerful component of developing leadership skills. Do you currently leave storytelling, and your leadership soft skills, in the hands of other internal or external resources? Or, are you accountable for developing and implementing this skill set, yourself? After a while, it becomes difficult remembering which stories you are… [Continue Reading]
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